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December 21, 2013
WordPress How To (Categories and Bulk Edit)
Categories & Bulk Edit!
For further reading please check out the official WordPress pages at http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/edit-pages-screen/#bulk-edit
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/
Another helpful wordpress "How to" from Green Embers
December 20, 2013
Cover Reveal: Papi Z’s Retail Memories: When Customers Attack
The publishing debut by Papi Z from The Literary Syndicate! Retail Memories: When Customers Attack is a highly fictionalized memoir of Papi Z’s retail years. Filled with humor, horror, and gift-wrap murder, this is a must have book for your holiday!
It will be available for Amazon Kindle for $.99. The perfect stocking stuffer gift idea for that hard-to-buy-for retail-working family member! Anticipated sale date the week of 12-23-13.
Book Blurb:
Basking in the glow of memories both good and bad, Papi Z takes you on a highly fictionalized whirlwind tour of retail life from the perspective of store management. Hostile customers, vermin, and misadventures await you as Papi Z escorts you through the dark times of Christmas and various other situations.
Author Bio:
Papi Z was born many moons ago on a planet far, far away. Sent to Earth at an early age to assist humanity in retail related manners, he thankfully has left the retail life and founded The Literary Syndicate. He currently lives on Earth with a wife and daughter.
How to reach Papi Z:
Facebook
Twitter
The Literary Syndicate
Filed under: Book Reviews and Books Tagged: cover reveal, Papi Z, Retail Memories: When Customers Attack
Fauxpocalypse
Well, this is it.
Fauxpocalypse, a collection of original short fiction, went live on Amazon Kindle at noon today.
This is the culmination of an idea that I had just about a year ago.
Two ideas, really. The first was about the theme of the end of the world in literature, and that I couldn't recall any stories about what would happen if the end of the world was predicted, but failed to materialize.
New book by a group of authors scattered all over the world! Tell me that's not interesting in and of itself! Fauxpocalypse
December 19, 2013
Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of Tiffany Glass and Art
While the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum is awe inspiring, the history of Louis Comfort Tiffany and the founding of the museum are equally impressive. Most famous for the Tiffany lamps designed by his students and himself, there is so much more to see. A small sample of the most comprehensive collection of Tiffany’s work and a hint of the history behind it can be seen in this video:
Like a rock hound, I seek out Florida’s hidden gems. This rare gem is tucked away behind the curtains of Spanish moss that drape a live oak shaded cobbled avenue in Winter Park. The museum and its impressive art nouveau collection is the crown jewel of the Winter Park shopping and historic district near Orlando.
If you are ever in the Orlando area the museum is simply a “must see”. Its focal point, a chapel rescued from the fire that destroyed the Tiffany Estate, Laurelton Hall, in 1957, was designed and constructed exclusively for display in 1893 at the World’s Columbian Exposition (also known as The World’s Fair) in Chicago.
The Daffodil Terrace, restored at the museum, is temporarily installed at the Metropolitan Museum and is larger than many Manhattan apartments. Its tall marble columns are topped with clusters of yellow flowers — daffodils — made of blown glass, the material in which Tiffany achieved his greatest eloquence.
The Daffodil Terrace once connected the dining room and the gardens at Laurelton Hall, the grand estate that Tiffany built for himself from 1902 to 1905 on 580 extensively landscaped acres overlooking Long Island Sound. Can you imagine the grandeur of such a place?
You can read more about the chapel and the museum founders here: http://orlando.about.com/od/museumarticles/a/tiffany.htm
Filed under: Articles Tagged: art nouveau, beauty, Charles Hosmer Morse, Florida, glass art, Hidden gems, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Orlando, The Daffodil Terrace, Tiffany Chapel, Tiffany glass, Winter Park
Scrivener online courses now open for registration
Reblogged from Gwen Hernandez:
Registration for my February Scrivener online courses for Mac and Windows is now open. Both start February 24th. For more information, or to register, click one of the buttons below.
I hope to see you in class!
ANYONE INTERESTED IN SCRIVENER? This is the best class ever, offered by Gwen Hernandez, author of "Scrivener for Dummies".
Just forty bucks and you will learn so much, even if you think you already know Scrivener! Six Weeks of step by step, great for beginners OR the seasoned scribe. Mac or Windows!
Bloggers: The Real and the Imagined
As a nurse, especially when working as a psych nurse, we are taught to read body language, to pick up on subtle biological cues, note changed inflections and tones when listening to words spoken. You get none of that online. Even when you are acute enough to read between the lines, it’s not the same thing. You are working off of one sense, and your brain has to assimilate the information from there. The other four senses are impaired. We are all reading with impaired senses. There is no real emotion in it, only the sense of sight, you see the words, your mind has to create the rest and none of us think quite alike. What you write is subject to interpretation by the reader. We are operating like the drunk driver.
When writing novels, we are always writing from our own perceptions, trying to convey a personality through words. Not our own personality, but the character’s personality. Their mannerism, mood, actions, reactions, language, how they uniquely interact with the world around them. A world that we also created.
Many bloggers, especially anonymous bloggers who have created an online persona of sorts, do the same. The ones who use a character image to write and respond to comments are really adept at projecting an image they wish you to see; like Mr. and Mrs. Bojangles (Not really characters that I know of, I am making them up for demonstration purposes). She signs her comments Mrs. B and he signs his comments Mr. B. They take turns posting whatever they wish the world to know about the Bojangles and how the Bojangles receive the world around them.
They might really be Mr. and Mrs. Morgan down the street. He may kick his dog and she may beat her kids, you really don’t know them. Online, they are a sweet little old couple who offer advice to young people on starting a family. Then again, they may be ministers of their church and dutifully assist their parish in all manner of life’s challenges. Again, you don’t know. You just know their online persona.
Like the Wizard of OZ, they are protected by a curtain of anonymity.
Do you ever wonder about the people you meet online? Surely you do.
Then, there are bloggers who write outright, open about themselves and their personal lives, their work, their talents, their writing process, their ambitions, the way they perceive the world around them, signing their writing by their real life name, posting it at the top of their blog as I do. How well do you really know them? Being online, you don’t see their flaws of character, that they bite their nails, never comb their hair, cross their legs and & arms when seated, and smell like yesterday’s cheese. You also don’t see their strengths of character, the way they shake a hand, their smiles, their infectious laugh, the way they always hold the door for others. You can only guess, by the words they write, what they must be like in “Real Life”.
Whether it is the “real you” or a persona that you have imaginatively created, I am truly amazed with you all, from the 25 year old unemployed Australian guy sitting in a coffee shop with the brilliant mind looking for his niche that ponders life and its meaning, to the passionate 20 year old writing majestic prose and poetry lamenting lost love, from the quirky 80 yo great-grandma who recalls history with a twist of lime, to the struggling 30-something writer who ambitiously defeats personal odds to develop an entire series of marketable books. The guy next door, the lady with 9 kids, the satirical comedian, the girl coping with mental illness and drug addiction, you are all why I keep coming back. I love the diversity that is you, real or imagined.
The collective consciousness of the blogosphere is both mystifying and marvelous!
Filed under: Social Progress Tagged: anonymity, bloggers, characters, diversity, emotion, flaws, imagined, real, senses, strengths
December 18, 2013
PJ Parker's Fire On The Water Blog Tour
Reblogged from readful things blog:
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Fire On The Water
A Companion To Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Fire On The Water: A Companion To Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
By P.J. Parker
Category: Drama
Publication Date: 12th December 2013
ISBN paperback: 978-1-61213-196-2
ISBN ebook: 978-1-61213-197-9
Book Summary
Rachel, a young American biographer researching the life of Mary Shelley in Montreux, Switzerland, is entangled and consumed by the escalating threads of her investigation.
Blog Tour accompanied by a very insightful guest post by the author.
Cover Reveal Volunteers?
Reblogged from The Literary Syndicate:
Good morning my friends! Retail Memories: When Customers Attack is getting ever nearer to completion, and I need some volunteers to "Reveal" my brand spanking new cover! It is awesome, I can assure you. I am so excited I can barely contain myself, and while all of you have been extremely helpful to me already, I need some volunteers. If you wish to volunteer to help little old me out with my cover reveal, please fill out the contact form and I will send it out to whomever wishes to help!
Lend a first time author a hand and join his cover reveal. Event is occurring December 20th, which is this Friday!
Interview With Ryan Attard, Author of Firstborn
Welcome to an interview with Ryan Attard, author of Firstborn, first novel in the Legacy Series, published by AEC Stellar Publishing. Firstborn is available at Amazon.
Ryan also has a blog at http://ryanattard.com/ where you can partake of his often irreverent, sometimes off-color, but always funny commentary.
Great interview with Marie Bailey interviewing Ryan Attard, an aggressive and committed series author.
December 17, 2013
An interview with Charles E. Yallowitz (Legends of Windemere)
Reblogged from readful things blog:
I am very proud to welcome my favourite author and fellow blogger Charles E. Yallowitz to Readful Things today to discuss his career as an author. Please give him a welcome and a pat on the back, he is the hardest working author I know.
BUY THEM HERE
Each one will feed a starving writer in New York....
What has been the hardest and most unexpected part of your journey as an indie author thus far?
Interesting interview from fantasy series author of Legends of Windemere and an all around great guy!
